Homemade Chocolate Pudding I have lots of kids, and while I love to cook, I don’t necessarily love grocery shopping. I despise lugging around the cart, dealing with checkout and hauling and unloading all the bags. So my way of avoiding this as much as possible is to make a once (sometimes twice) a month … [Read more…]

Lemon Garlic Roast Chicken I was a teenager when I first became obsessed with cooking, and more importantly, how to cook things the right way. Sometime in my teenage years, I read something about how candidates for apprenticeship in French kitchens auditioned by roasting chicken and scrambling eggs. How well they did those two simple … [Read more…]

Coca Cola Frosting One of the most remarkable elements of the Coca Cake is the frosting. This frosting is rich and chocolaty, sure. But it has the most delightful caramel notes as well. Cooking the frosting ingredients together before mixing in the sugar brings out the caramel that is already present in Coke, making Coke … [Read more…]